Welcome to our community gratitude journal, open to all who’d like to express their thanks or share a happy thought.

Summer’s great when grandchildren come to visit.Texas Grandma

Grateful for ... “cakes, friends, nature, people who come when you call 911 and I’m grateful for everything.”Tillie Jane, age 6 3/4

I’m happy my stepmom is coming for a visit!jb

I’m thankful that my four CASA kids are going to be adopted into happy families. And I’m thankful for people who adopt foster kids.A Grateful Court Appointed Special Advocate

I’m thankful for a good night’s rest!Guest

Thankful for all the birthday wishes today. I think it’s going to be a good year.42 and Counting

I’m very, very grateful that we didn’t run out of gas on the interstate.Janine Kovac

Send us your photos! Every week we post a photo submitted by one of our readers along with all the happy and thankful comments gathered throughout the week.

To contribute, email your gratitude (a sentence or two would be great) or your favorite photo to Janine at janinek@berkeley.edu.

You can also contribute by commenting at the bottom of this post. Please include: your name if you’d like us to use it and any other info you’d like us to list, e.g., if the “gratitude” is from one of your children, it would be great to know his or her age.

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I’m Christine Carter, Ph.D, a sociologist and happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. This blog is mostly science-based parenting advice: since I’m reading all the research related to raising happy children anyway, I thought we might as well make it useable to parents. My intention is to bring a scientific framing (what does the research actually say?) to our opinion-based parenting debates and advice. Sorting fact from fiction can be confusing when it comes to parenting.

This blog is also about me and my children. It represents the intersection of my brain and my heart: my intellectual training in the social sciences and my very real, sometimes raw, experiences as a mother.

This workshop is an introduction to Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), an empirically-supported training program based on the pioneering research of Kristin Neff and the clinical perspective of Chris Germer.